Marked for Ingvar Jónsson
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market8 Feb 2027
Valur come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Vikingur did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market8 Feb 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Vikingur can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. IK Start have kept their man, and Vikingur go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market8 Feb 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Tarik Ibrahimagic has his answer from Vikingur; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Vikingur training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gunnar Vatnhamar is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad8 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vikingur this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Nobody at Vikingur will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market8 Feb 2027
Vikingur have made Ingvar Jónsson available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match1 Feb 2027
22 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.
Market1 Feb 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Gylfi Sigurðsson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market1 Feb 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Valdimar Þór Ingimundarson has his answer from Vikingur; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Gunnar Vatnhamar falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
When it matters, Tom Louchet plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A season on the outside for Tom Louchet
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Vikingur has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Market1 Feb 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Sveinn Aron Guðjohnsen signs something — a contract at Vikingur or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Gunnar Vatnhamar asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Squad18 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Vikingur
Gylfi Sigurðsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad18 Jan 2027
18 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market18 Jan 2027
Add another name to the list: SonderjyskE have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Atli Þór Jónasson. The answer from Vikingur has not changed — yet.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Vikingur training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gunnar Vatnhamar is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Nobody at Vikingur will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Uneasy
Squad11 Jan 2027
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Vikingur will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad11 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vikingur this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Vikingur training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gunnar Vatnhamar is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Ingvar Jónsson
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Nobody at Vikingur will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Davíð Örn Atlason trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Squad4 Jan 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 22 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match4 Jan 2027
The view from the top for Vikingur
22 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Gylfi Sigurðsson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The quietest bad news in football. At 23 nothing has moved for months — not backwards, which would at least be a conversation, simply nowhere. Somebody at the club will have to decide whether that is the club's fault or his.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
When it matters, Tom Louchet plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Vikingur will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Vikingur
Gunnar Vatnhamar and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Nobody at Vikingur will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Vikingur
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sigurjón Mogensen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Vikingur. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Crisis
Squad14 Dec 2026
17 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Vikingur lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match10 Dec 2026
The wait goes on for Vikingur
9 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Vikingur will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match10 Dec 2026
A European lesson for Vikingur
1‑2 against IFK Goteborg. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.
Squad14 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vikingur this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match10 Dec 2026
Vikingur leaking at the back
4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Marked 8.01. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Vikingur.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ingvar Jónsson, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
24 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Vikingur lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Vikingur will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match7 Dec 2026
First, on 22 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Vikingur have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Gylfi Sigurðsson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Vikingur training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gunnar Vatnhamar is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 67 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Vikingur
Gylfi Sigurðsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Nobody at Vikingur will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market23 Nov 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 75 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Vikingur may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad16 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vikingur this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Gunnar Vatnhamar falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Viktor Örlygur Andrason, and the manager let it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Vikingur will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Vikingur
Gunnar Vatnhamar and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Björgvin Brimi Andrésson and Vikingur agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Valdimar Þór Ingimundarson is on it.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The captaincy has been taken off Helgi Guðjónsson. Vikingur will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Gunnar Vatnhamar trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market2 Nov 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Ármann Ingi Finnbogason has his answer from Vikingur; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Vikingur will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vikingur this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Daníel Hafsteinsson and Vikingur agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Ögmundur Kristinsson is on it.
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Crisis
Squad28 Sep 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Vikingur will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match23 Sep 2026
The small margins put Vikingur out
Out, 0‑1 to Valur, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Match26 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Vikingur's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Vikingur has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Vikingur
Gylfi Sigurðsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match26 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for Vikingur against KR
0‑1 to KR, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Jon Johannsson left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Viktor Örlygur Andrason.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
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Upbeat
Match17 Sep 2026
A European night to forget for Vikingur
1‑4. Astra play this football every year and it showed in every part of the pitch. The lesson is expensive and, for a club at this stage, probably necessary.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 132 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad21 Sep 2026
8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Tom Louchet goes up and wins it — 7.84
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.84 for the rest of it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vikingur this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
200 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
The big one: KR come into view
Two sides from the top of the table, one afternoon, and a month of talk decided in ninety minutes. Vikingur will not use the word title this week and will not stop thinking it.
Match19 Sep 2026
Vikingur hit back inside 3 minutes
Valur held the lead for 3 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. Vikingur answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Davíð Örn Atlason, and the manager let it.
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Triumph
Match12 Sep 2026
Vikingur cannot stop winning
10 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.15 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match14 Sep 2026
21 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.
Match12 Sep 2026
Another one collected away from home
6 on the bounce on the road for Vikingur. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Tom Louchet beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match12 Sep 2026
A 2‑1 win over Fylkir, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Gunnar Vatnhamar falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Sölvi Stefánsson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
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Triumph
Match5 Sep 2026
Vikingur make it 9 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Vikingur have 9 straight wins of it.
Market7 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Vikingur, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.73, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tarik Ibrahimagic was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match5 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Atli Þór Jónasson. 2‑0 against Fjolnir, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Match5 Sep 2026
Vikingur settle it inside twenty minutes
2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Fjolnir spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The award goes to Sveinn Aron Guðjohnsen, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.
Squad7 Sep 2026
8 new faces, and Vikingur are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
In brief
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The dugout
Somebody else is better right now than Ingvar Jónsson
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Squad
Gylfi Sigurðsson named in the team of the month
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict